Spiritually Speaking

An Excerpt from the earliest known Zen spiritual guide - The 3 rd Zen patriarch, Seng Ts'an, wrote: “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.

The 3rd Zen patriarch, Seng Ts'an, wrote, “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.

The traditional Buddhist analysis of wisdom (Skt: prajña) allows that there there are three interacting sources: hearing, cognitive consideration and spiritual practice. The earliest disciples of the Buddha were called the “Hearers” (Skt:śrāvaka).

In a couple of days, I will be sitting with my family at the Passover Seder, a meal wrapped in a service of remembrance, with prayers, songs, symbolic foods and the retelling of how G-d took us out of Egypt from slavery to freedom.

Recently I started to pay more attention to how many conversations I have each day about food.

I have been deeply moved by the outpouring of public sympathy and support in the wake of the tragic death of Westshore RCMP Const. Sarah Beckett.

I’m always grateful when Easter comes, and not just because it marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the most important season of the Christian tradition. For me, Easter brings with it a much-needed call to rise and begin again.

(Adrienne Carter with colleagues at the Centre for Victims of Torture, In Jordan. The headquarters for CVT is in Minneapolis, but has branches in many different parts of the world, including Jordan.

Can we guarantee that we will live a happy, healthy, and safe life? Most people strive for this, but no one has found a universal recipe for creating it.

A good friend of mine had just started as minister in a congregation. The widow of the previous minister, who had been at that church for 30 years, was still attending the congregation.